• The Pioneers: The Heroic Story...
  • Author: David McCullough
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

    As part of the Treaty...
  • Becoming
  • Author: Michelle Obama
  • Publisher: Crown
  • An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

    In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American to serve in that...
  • Educated: A Memoir
  • Author: Tara Westover
  • Publisher: Random House
  • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

    Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times

    "A coming-of-age memoir...
  • The Moment of Lift: How Empowering...
  • Author: Melinda Gates
  • Publisher:

  • The Second Mountain
  • Author: David Brooks
  • Publisher: Random House
  • An inspiring, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to live a meaningful life, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Character

    Every so often, you meet a person who radiates joy. Who seems to know exactly why they were put on this earth, and glows with a kind of inner light. Life,...
  • Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last...
  • Author: Casey Cep
  • Publisher: Random House Audio
  • "A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth." --David Grann, best-selling author...
  • No Walls and the Recurring Dream:...
  • Author: Ani DiFranco
  • Publisher: Viking
  • A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco

    In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy,...
  • Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal...
  • Author: Bill Geist
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini Golf, and feathered rubber tomahawks. It was there that author Bill Geist spent summers in the Sixties...
  • Every Tool's a Hammer: Life...
  • Author: Adam Savage
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • MythBusters' Adam Savage - Discovery Channel star and one of the most beloved figures in science and tech - shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully turning your idea into reality.

    Adam Savage is a maker. From Chewbacca's bandolier to a thousand-shot...
  • Where the Light Enters: Building...
  • Author: Jill Biden
  • Publisher: Flatiron Books

  • An intimate look at the traditions, resilience, and love that built the Biden family, and the delicate balancing act of the woman at its center.

    Growing up, Jill Biden wanted two things: a marriage like her parents' and a career. But her journey to fulfill those wishes would take unexpected turns, and her definition...

  • Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
  • Author: Chelsea Handler
  • Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
  • The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler's year of self-discovery - featuring a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed) , friends, assistants, and a lot of edibles

    "This will be one of your...
  • Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
  • Author: Anna Quindlen
  • Publisher: Random House
  • A bighearted book of wisdom, wit, and insight, celebrating the love and joy of being a grandmother, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and #1 New York Times bestselling author

    It's a little challenging to suss out why exactly it can be so magical. . . . All I know is: The hand. The little hand that...
  • The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making...
  • Author: Susan Page
  • Publisher: Twelve
  • A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history.
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  • Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations...
  • Author: Jared Diamond
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
  • A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall....
  • How We Love Is How We Live
  • Author: Common
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • Common - the Grammy Award-, Academy Award-, and Golden Globe-winning musician, actor, and activist - follows up his New York Times bestselling memoir One Day It'll All Make Sense with this inspiring exploration of how love and mindfulness can build communities and allow you to take better control of your life...